User:Da Vynci

Articles worth reading:

• Brave New World
• Technological singularity
• End of civilization Humanity section
• Prisoner's dilemma
• impossible object
• Non-apology apology & Non-denial denial
• Double entendre
• Classical cipher
• Cartoon physics
• Allegory of the Cave

other interesting subjects:

• Random act of kindness
• Ventriloquism
• Cryptomnesia
• Unsolved problems in philosophy
• You have two cows
• Steganography
• List of Latin phrases
• Unusual articles in Wikipedia
• Social engineering
• Reverse engineering
• List of cognitive biases

I was shocked to find out the following were once permitted officially by governments in our so called civilisation.

• Trial by ordeal
• Trial by combat
• Forced disappearance
• Witch trial

Other shocking subjects/event:

• Kamikaze
• School massacre
• Nevada-tan

Artists that I like: Jeffrey Smart | Pierre-Auguste Renoir | J. M. W. Turner | John William Waterhouse | M. C. Escher.

Interesting writers: Ni Kuang | Louis Cha | Plato | J. K. Rowling | Dame Agatha Christie | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Other interesting books/texts:

• Form, L. Peter Kollar,1983
• Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art, by Ananda Coomaraswamy,1956
• The Mark of Butterfly ( 蝴蝶的記號 ), by Xue Chen ( 陳雪 ), circa 1990
• Right hand, Left hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures, by Chris McMaus, 2002
• Looking for Alibrandi, by Melina Marchetta, 1992
• The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1909
• The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu, circa 11th century
• Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den ( 施氏食獅史 ) , by Zhao Yuanren, date unknown